Can I move this to game ideas?
sure
Horses - bicycles?
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Nope, still doesn’t work.
hey man we know iAMERICA’S a stupid name but it’s stuck, ok? Apparently the club progenitors decided they wanted to be known as the presidents of america. gives cred with the n00b girls, or something.
the only time someone tried to change it- to AURPG- it started to sound like ‘our pig’ so we decided that america was the lesser of stupid name evils…
I get the distinction between ‘Middle Earth’ and the actual book settings. I think a setting in Osgiliath before the war breaks out would be cool. or the tribes of the Rohirrim roaming the edoras plains and encountering… stuff… an area of the world that people are sort of aware of but don’t know about except for the times it was covered in LOTR of the Hobbit. and of course since i was seven I wanted to go to Lothlorien… but thats just me being a girl and thinking galadriel was the prettiest name in the world. hey we’re back on names! how appropriate. cycle complete.
I’ve got quite a few of the adjunctive books to Middle-Earth, I might be able to help work out setting ideas or something, after exams of course, you all know I’d rather have something with at least a few Elves in…
I’m not sure why you can’t just do Middle-Earth as a campaign in a pre-existing game. A system like Mordavia, Quest or Nero should be able to accomodate such a campain.
The occasional fixed encounter modules, some intelligent monster modules and the occasional character driven module and you have a complete campaign based on Middle Earth. This need not even interfer with the rest of the players.
I’m sure you could, if someone felt strongly enough that they wanted to run one and pulled it together. I’d recommend a fair bit of customising though. The magic in Mordavia is pretty irrelevant to Middle Earth, for example.
Huh?
Please don’t say anyone is running NERO (as in New England Roleplaying Organisation) larps in New Zealand. It’s bad enough that steaming pile of excrement has mutated the whole fantasy larp scene in the USA, I’d hate to think it was coming here.
NERO is my nemesis. Seriously, I have a Favoured Enemy bonus and everything. Specifically, the system is just awful. I’m sure the setting might be fine and lots of people have managed to extract enjoyment from it, but seriously to design a worse larp system would take a herculean effort.
What a weird coincindence that I only just mentioned NERO as an wrongbadlarp on the other thread before I read this.
Relax, NERO is not coming to New Zealand. I am just saying that a good writer can get a Middle Earth campaign going even using NERO. NERO is not a great system, but there are many, many worse systems out there.
As Gary Gygax said (and everyone should know who that is), Lord of the Rings is almost impossible to role play and to script properly. The orginal D&D was an attempt to give the feel of Middle Earth without being Middle Earth. There has been the ICE game which had mixed results. Good luck to whoever takes on the task of bring Middle Earth to life. I wouldn’t do it.
Who is Gary Gygax?
The author of D&D, you spring chicken you!
Hey Craig your “Geek Ignorance” is showing
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Seconded…
Woah, sorry to derail the conversation…! I have very little interest in table toppin’.
Yeah, but its not just table topping that he does.
He’s pretty much the father of fantasy gaming.
Its like saying “Albert Einstien… who’s that?”
I had no idea who he was either and when I was talking to David and Erin this evening I called him Giga Gyjax something and they nearly lynched me it was scary